Heights: Pearson-Lee data

In alr4: Data to Accompany Applied Linear Regression 4th Edition

Description

Karl Pearson organized the collection of data on over 1100 families in England in the period 1893 to 1898. This particular data set gives the Heights in inches of mothers and their daughters, with up to two daughters per mother. All daughters are at least age 18, and all mothers are younger than 65. Data were given in the source as a frequency table to the nearest inch. Rounding error has been added to remove discreteness from graph.

Format

This data frame contains the following columns:

mheight

Mother's ht, in.

dheight

Daughter's ht, in.

Source

K. Pearson and A. Lee (1903), On the laws of inheritance in man, Biometrika, 2, 357–463, Table 31.

References

Weisberg, S. (2014). Applied Linear Regression, 4th edition. Hoboken NJ: Wiley.

Examples

head(Heights)

Example output

Loading required package: car
Loading required package: effects
Loading required package: carData

Attaching package: 'carData'

The following objects are masked from 'package:car':

    Guyer, UN, Vocab

lattice theme set by effectsTheme()
See ?effectsTheme for details.
  mheight dheight
1    59.7    55.1
2    58.2    56.5
3    60.6    56.0
4    60.7    56.8
5    61.8    56.0
6    55.5    57.9

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